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Digitally Marketing 'Space for the Spirit'
I haven’t experienced a learning curve so steep since arriving home from hospital with twins. Engaging fully with digital marketing has...
patriciahiggins1
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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Going 'Home' for Christmas
Heading home for Christmas is a strong tradition in this of the world. Heading home, taking time in the places we are from, connecting...
patriciahiggins1
Dec 21, 20234 min read
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Whispers of Hope this Advent...
A candle for Gaza ‘Still so sad for the children in Gaza.’ This is what one participant replied, when invited to say how they were at the...
patriciahiggins1
Dec 21, 20233 min read
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Advent Walk: big skies, a little silence, and a chance to escape the 'to dos'
Inishowen Head, at the Northeast corner of Donegal, where Lough Foyle, having pinched itself in a few miles further south, widens out...
patriciahiggins1
Dec 4, 20234 min read
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Advent '23 - Making Space for Peace
What can peace mean this Christmas in the face of the devastating wars in Europe and the Middle East? Local Interfaith Minister Patricia...
patriciahiggins1
Nov 28, 20233 min read
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Rewilding Church:
Creating spaces to nurture faith Online talk given in June 2023 to Association of Catholics in Ireland in advance of Catholic church's...
patriciahiggins1
Sep 14, 20231 min read
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'Walking Away' - thoughts as kids go back to school
'Saying what God alone could perfectly show – How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go.' These lines...
patriciahiggins1
Sep 5, 20232 min read
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Hospice Hand Printing - A Blessing
Blessing included as part of presentation to first European Grief Conference, Copenhagen, Sep 2022 I was recently asked by a friend, if I...
patriciahiggins1
Aug 18, 20231 min read
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Female face of God
My youngest was gutted. Big fat tears rolled down his flushed 4 year old cheeks. He had dressed himself and was wearing a blue and white...
patriciahiggins1
Jul 18, 20232 min read
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Leap of Faith on RTE
Delighted to have been a guest with Siobhan Garrigan, on her Leap of Faith show on RTE. Listen back to the interview here (from 58 secs)
patriciahiggins1
Sep 16, 20221 min read
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On Daffodil Day - A prayer for those starting cancer treatment
I wrote this prayer recently for a friend on the first day of her radiotherapy treatment. On Daffodil Day sharing it for anyone else on a...
patriciahiggins1
Mar 25, 20221 min read
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Kintsugi - Piecing things back together
Published in Irish Hospice Foundation's Grief Journal, 2022, as part of Compassionate Culture Network Programme The Japanese art of...
patriciahiggins1
Mar 24, 20221 min read
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patriciahiggins1
Mar 16, 20220 min read
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Prayer of a bystander
It’s 39 years ago today (March 10th) since my younger brother died. 39 years since my mother’s prayer that he would at least live until...
patriciahiggins1
Mar 10, 20223 min read
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The Dark Womb - God and Reproductive Loss
The Dark Womb - God and Reproductive Loss What ‘in the name of God’ can you say to someone who has had a miscarriage? Can you honestly...
patriciahiggins1
Feb 8, 20225 min read
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Listening to Claire Byrne - Declining Priest Numbers, Meat Loaf Memories and Asking Hard Questions
Today with Claire Byrne had a piece this morning, Friday 21st Jan, on the decline in numbers of priests in the Catholic Church in Ireland...
patriciahiggins1
Jan 21, 20225 min read
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Running up to Christmas
Since having kids, Christmas can sometime feel like an organisational marathon. Sort Santa lists, sort family gifts, sort a plan for...
patriciahiggins1
Dec 14, 20213 min read
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Re-Wilding Weddings... and maybe Re-Wilding Church...
I led my first wedding reception recently, outside n the wildly beautiful grounds of Killyon Manor, in County Westmeath Photo courtesy of...
patriciahiggins1
Oct 23, 20214 min read
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Taking the plunge: Moving to Inishowen
As someone seeking to offer ceremonies for life’s big moments, I recently moved from Dublin to Donegal and in terms of scenery, the new...
patriciahiggins1
Oct 15, 20213 min read
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Dogs, God and Wedding Fairs
I went to my first wedding fair as an Interfaith Minister. Fresh from the simplicity of a wedding in a re-wilded venue, I guess it was...
patriciahiggins1
Oct 14, 20212 min read
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